(16 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bannu, Pakistan - 15 July 2024
1. Smoke rising from military facility, where a militant attacked
2. Wide of road blocked with barbed wire, security personnel standing on either side
3. Pan from exterior of military facility wall to empty road
4. Police stopping people moving toward military station area
5. Mid of the military facility area, police passing on motor bikes
6. Locals removing pieces of broken window glass
7. Pieces of glass on ground
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bannu, Pakistan - 16 July 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Gul Rehman, local resident:
“Since yesterday, (there was) fighting going on between the Pakistan army and militants. Now 10 minutes ago, the situation calmed down and now looks under control by the army. (Gun) Firing was going on the whole night, the situation was very bad. I heard that there are casualties, the road and shops are closed.”
9. Various of empty roads and closed shops
10. Various of police standing by barricades
STORYLINE:
All 10 militants who rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a Pakistani military facility were killed in an 18-hour operation, officials said Tuesday.
In its statement, the Pakistani military said eight soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber early Monday rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the outer wall of an army housing complex in Bannu, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
A splinter group of Pakistani Taliban, led by a militant commander Gul Bahadur, claimed the attack, which has been denounced by the country's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and other officials.
The military said the suicide attack collapsed a portion of the wall and damaged nearby infrastructure, resulting in the killing of the eight soldiers.
Responding to the attack, security forces killed all ten attackers, it said.
Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant attacks, mostly in the northwest which borders Afghanistan, in recent years.
Most such previous attacks have been blamed on Pakistani Taliban, who are known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP. They are a separate group but also an ally of the Afghan Taliban. TTP has stepped up its attacks on security forces across the country since the Afghan Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021.
AP video shot by Ijaz Khan
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